LONDON - The scandal that destroyed the UK's largest weekly tabloid, the News of the World Tea, widened on Monday, with the emergence of new allegations that the reporter group News International is another, this time from The Sun, improperly obtain personal information about the medical reports the son of former British Prime Minister , Gordon Brown.
Brown, Monday night, expressed disappointment related to the allegations and has told investigators "all relevant evidence" that he had about the matter, said a statement issued by Brown's office. "The family was surprised by the level of criminality and unethical way how personal information is obtained," the statement said. "The problem is (already) in the hands of police."
Recent allegations of violations by a journalist who worked for the News International is published by a media rival, Guardian, Monday. The Guardian reports, The Sun which is under the auspices of the News International as News of the World, get detailed information about a boy who was seriously ill and Brown published a story about the boy. The Guardian also reported the fraud committed Sunday Times, from the same business group which are all owned by media magnate Rupert Murdoch, media reporters about the way the accountants were deceiving Brown, a former Labour leader, in order to submit the details of the accountant's financial statements.
Efforts that occurred from about 10 years out, and covers the period when Brown was prime minister, according to the Guardian.
News International, a subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corporation in the United Kingdom, issued a statement saying that the company already knows the allegations. "So that we can investigate it further, we ask that all information regarding this allegation was given to us," reads a company statement.
Brown's wife, Sarah, responding to the case said in a posting on his Twitter account. "So I am sad, all I know about the family's privacy - it's very personal and really painful if it was all true," he wrote.
The latest accusation is a slap in addition to the Murdoch media empire. Last week, the News of the World, which is a tabloid with a circulation of the world's largest, reaching 2.6 million copies, was forced to close for good in the form unethical practices related to wiretap a person or family who becomes the object of his message. A number of wives of British soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the victims of murder and terrorism, including those who intercepted the phone by tabloid reporters. In fact, there are allegations that media reporters pay the police or detectives to get specific information they want.
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